Allen, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Allens Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62682. The Survey maps it on the Natrona quadrangle.

Allen within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1942 USGS Delavan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Natrona quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Allen in 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	076-17

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allen in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2016	Flash Flood	Allen	-	Persistent thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall during the early evening in eastern Mason County with 2.50 to 6.00 inches in three hours, with the heaviest rain from 3 miles northeast of Mason City to San Jose. Most rural roads in extreme eastern Mason County were impassable during the heavy rain. U.S. Highway 136 was also flooded in spots near San Jose. The flash flooding subsided by late evening.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Allen	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down 1 mile east of Allen. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.

Every storm recorded in Mason County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Natrona	2.5 miles	13
Mason City	7.5 miles	14
Luther	7.7 miles	14
Teheran	9.7 miles	13
Union	10.3 miles	15
Forest City	10.4 miles	14
Manito	10.8 miles	15
Easton	11.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422398. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.